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Toronto, March 21, 2019 – In many North American cities, municipal leaders have developed ambitious long-term transportation plans, yet local officials often concede that existing revenues streams are inadequate to finance such plans. Municipalities may lack either the legal authority...

Toronto, January 10, 2019 – A new paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy finds that the departments, firms, and companies that are at the heart...

Next week, Canada will sign the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Marrakesh, Morocco starting Monday, December 10th 2019. The non-binding document is the result of two years of international negotiation. It sets 23 distinct objectives for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, Canada (25 April 2018) — A new report by the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, investigates the global proliferation of Internet filtering systems manufactured by Netsweeper, a Canadian company based in Waterloo, Ontario....

For Immediate Release: January 3, 2018 (Toronto and Washington): Patricia Rubin, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize and The Lionel Gelber Foundation, and Randall Hansen, Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, are pleased to announce the Jury...

Toronto, ON – Many of us feel we could be doing more to stay safe online, but it can be hard to decide where to start and which advice to follow. At Citizen Lab, we track digital threats targeting civil...

Canadian International Council Toronto Branch and the G7 Research Group of Trinity College at the Munk School of Global Affairs present “A Public Dialogue on Canada’s Presidency of the G7: Perspectives and Challenges” with Peter M. Boehm, Deputy Minister for...

Ottawa, November 8, 2017 — The Study Group on Global Education – an independent group of educational leaders, business executives and policy experts established under the auspices of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and...

As voters in Alberta and Quebec head to the polls, and a year before municipal elections in Ontario and through much of the rest of the country, a new paper looks at the potential for electoral reform and its consequences....

MEDIA ALERT Briefing from the Canadian Ambassador to South Korea: Updates from the ground Canadian Ambassador to South Korea, H.E. Eric Walsh will participate in a web conference on North Korea at the Munk School of Global Affairs ON September...